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Charm City original nerd bringing you open data from space and climate resilience from Baltimore. Also: liminal places, analog art (incl occasional cyanotypes), local weirdness. Not: employer opinions.
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Here's the thing: volunteering is about finding a need and then helping to fill it. It's not primarily about you.
If you're hunting for specific activities to do once a year so you can feel you've "done your part" then YOU are the one in need, looking for other people's suffering to fill you up.
If you're hunting for specific activities to do once a year so you can feel you've "done your part" then YOU are the one in need, looking for other people's suffering to fill you up.
DO NOT call up the homeless shelter on thanksgiving or Xmas to see if you can pass a few plates and show your kids the “reason for the season”
The homeless shelter is not a petting zoo of human tragedy! The homeless shelter is not a drive thru nativity scene for you to enjoy!
The homeless shelter is not a petting zoo of human tragedy! The homeless shelter is not a drive thru nativity scene for you to enjoy!
November 27, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Here's the thing: volunteering is about finding a need and then helping to fill it. It's not primarily about you.
If you're hunting for specific activities to do once a year so you can feel you've "done your part" then YOU are the one in need, looking for other people's suffering to fill you up.
If you're hunting for specific activities to do once a year so you can feel you've "done your part" then YOU are the one in need, looking for other people's suffering to fill you up.
This thread just got Kevlar gardening gloves added to my holiday wishlist.
I was at the ER the night before Thanksgiving/early hours of Thanksgiving last year with a family member, and we overheard two doctors call that block of time "The Night of the Mandolines" due to the sheer number of sharps injuries during meal prep.
November 27, 2025 at 5:53 PM
This thread just got Kevlar gardening gloves added to my holiday wishlist.
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Does anyone in Baltimore need (or could use) a 20 lb turkey? Because reasons, we have acquired one, and while we can come up with uses for it, it's A Problem for my allergy issues and if someone needs it more, Sarah is happy to deliver anywhere in Baltimore
November 24, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Does anyone in Baltimore need (or could use) a 20 lb turkey? Because reasons, we have acquired one, and while we can come up with uses for it, it's A Problem for my allergy issues and if someone needs it more, Sarah is happy to deliver anywhere in Baltimore
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Must Love Lamp: a Mothman romcom.
November 23, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Must Love Lamp: a Mothman romcom.
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Anyone want some good news? The Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing is nearly done and it’s pretty awesome
apple.news/A7yad9o6US72...
apple.news/A7yad9o6US72...
Officials celebrate construction of revolutionary structure over major US freeway: 'This was an impossible dream' — The Cool Down
A team of engineers, biologists, scientists, and mycologists all contributed. Nov 22, 2025 The Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing is one step closer to its completion with its first official native pl...
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November 23, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Anyone want some good news? The Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing is nearly done and it’s pretty awesome
apple.news/A7yad9o6US72...
apple.news/A7yad9o6US72...
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I think every time someone from Baltimore has to endure a reference to The Wire, they should get to send David Simon a cash app and/or Venmo request for $25.
November 14, 2025 at 12:44 PM
I think every time someone from Baltimore has to endure a reference to The Wire, they should get to send David Simon a cash app and/or Venmo request for $25.
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Aurora color guide! What creates the different shades?
Different atoms getting "excited" at different altitudes
The bright reds are a sign of a particularly intense event
Different atoms getting "excited" at different altitudes
The bright reds are a sign of a particularly intense event
November 12, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Aurora color guide! What creates the different shades?
Different atoms getting "excited" at different altitudes
The bright reds are a sign of a particularly intense event
Different atoms getting "excited" at different altitudes
The bright reds are a sign of a particularly intense event
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Another interesting thing for people to look into is TooGoodToGo. It lets restaurants and markets posted discounted “mystery bags” for sale. We bought a big ol bag-o-veg from our local market Jones Farm for $7. Lots of places in the city & even a few in the counties. www.toogoodtogo.com/en-us
Save Good Food From Going To Waste | Too Good To Go
Too Good To Go app is the world's largest surplus food marketplace. Download now and enjoy good food at 1/2 price or less, help the environment and reduce food waste.
www.toogoodtogo.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Another interesting thing for people to look into is TooGoodToGo. It lets restaurants and markets posted discounted “mystery bags” for sale. We bought a big ol bag-o-veg from our local market Jones Farm for $7. Lots of places in the city & even a few in the counties. www.toogoodtogo.com/en-us
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I really loved GDT’s Frankenstein, but I will warn people it makes the subtext of childabuse and parental neglect text.
Victor is both verbally and physically abusive similar to how many kids, especially disabled ones, are abused.
Be careful and pass this on to anyway who might be impacted.
Victor is both verbally and physically abusive similar to how many kids, especially disabled ones, are abused.
Be careful and pass this on to anyway who might be impacted.
November 9, 2025 at 6:29 PM
I really loved GDT’s Frankenstein, but I will warn people it makes the subtext of childabuse and parental neglect text.
Victor is both verbally and physically abusive similar to how many kids, especially disabled ones, are abused.
Be careful and pass this on to anyway who might be impacted.
Victor is both verbally and physically abusive similar to how many kids, especially disabled ones, are abused.
Be careful and pass this on to anyway who might be impacted.
Lovely email from Maryland's One Straw Farm community supported agriculture program to reach out if affected by shutdown for free extras these last few weeks of the season. They continue to be really wonderful people as well as good organic veggie farmers.
November 9, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Lovely email from Maryland's One Straw Farm community supported agriculture program to reach out if affected by shutdown for free extras these last few weeks of the season. They continue to be really wonderful people as well as good organic veggie farmers.
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To put this in scale, Elon Musk's salary from Tesla alone could fund the SNAP program for the entire country into 2034.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk scored a resounding victory on Thursday as shareholders approved a pay package of as much as $878 billion over the next decade, endorsing his vision of morphing the EV maker into an AI and robotics juggernaut.
Tesla shareholders approve $878 billion pay plan for Elon Musk
Tesla CEO Elon Musk scored a resounding victory on Thursday as shareholders approved a pay package of as much as $878 billion over the next decade, endorsing his vision of morphing the EV maker into an AI and robotics juggernaut.
reut.rs
November 6, 2025 at 10:19 PM
To put this in scale, Elon Musk's salary from Tesla alone could fund the SNAP program for the entire country into 2034.
Neighbor dropped off a battered cabinet in need of refinishing and painting into a little free pantry, so I have spent this evening in a garage woodshop covered in caulk and wood putty, unable to check my phone, finding peace, in the natural progression of a senior developer.
November 5, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Neighbor dropped off a battered cabinet in need of refinishing and painting into a little free pantry, so I have spent this evening in a garage woodshop covered in caulk and wood putty, unable to check my phone, finding peace, in the natural progression of a senior developer.
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AMERICA: A LIFTED LAMP BESIDE THE GOLDEN DOOR; ACCEPT NO SUBSTITUTES
November 5, 2025 at 1:06 AM
AMERICA: A LIFTED LAMP BESIDE THE GOLDEN DOOR; ACCEPT NO SUBSTITUTES
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Gael Gomez and his family are all but certain to leave the country this week, upending the lives they’ve built in D.C.
But Mount Pleasant's 19-year-old sidewalk astronomer wants people to keep looking up — at the sky and in life.
@samdelgado.bsky.social reports:
But Mount Pleasant's 19-year-old sidewalk astronomer wants people to keep looking up — at the sky and in life.
@samdelgado.bsky.social reports:
Mount Pleasant’s sidewalk astronomer might have to leave his home
But Gael Gomez wants people to keep looking up — at the sky and in life.
51st.news
November 4, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Gael Gomez and his family are all but certain to leave the country this week, upending the lives they’ve built in D.C.
But Mount Pleasant's 19-year-old sidewalk astronomer wants people to keep looking up — at the sky and in life.
@samdelgado.bsky.social reports:
But Mount Pleasant's 19-year-old sidewalk astronomer wants people to keep looking up — at the sky and in life.
@samdelgado.bsky.social reports:
If you know anything about DC restaurants, you know how much love and money federal workers have poured into Chef Andrés' establishments for years, in no small part to indirectly support World Central Kitchen. WCK paying it back directly right now is so many kinds of heartwarming and awful.
November 4, 2025 at 1:26 AM
If you know anything about DC restaurants, you know how much love and money federal workers have poured into Chef Andrés' establishments for years, in no small part to indirectly support World Central Kitchen. WCK paying it back directly right now is so many kinds of heartwarming and awful.
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Unpaid government workers are being fed by World Central Kitchen…let that sink in just how dire things are.
November 3, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Unpaid government workers are being fed by World Central Kitchen…let that sink in just how dire things are.
Sprites at Cylburn Arboretum by Aaron Smith, from reclaimed materials from Baltimore's Camp Small, a city-run wood reclamation project. There are 18 of them to find, and you are encouraged to move them.
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November 2, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Sprites at Cylburn Arboretum by Aaron Smith, from reclaimed materials from Baltimore's Camp Small, a city-run wood reclamation project. There are 18 of them to find, and you are encouraged to move them.
www.instagram.com/idle.handstu...
www.instagram.com/idle.handstu...
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🎃 Some lessons from Hallowe’en: 👻
Little kids should be able to walk in the streets, even at night, without worrying about cars.
People who are well-off are expected to give out more candy.
Candy is for anyone who asks — no means-testing.
Whatever else we are, we are each other’s neighbors.
Little kids should be able to walk in the streets, even at night, without worrying about cars.
People who are well-off are expected to give out more candy.
Candy is for anyone who asks — no means-testing.
Whatever else we are, we are each other’s neighbors.
November 1, 2025 at 12:59 AM
🎃 Some lessons from Hallowe’en: 👻
Little kids should be able to walk in the streets, even at night, without worrying about cars.
People who are well-off are expected to give out more candy.
Candy is for anyone who asks — no means-testing.
Whatever else we are, we are each other’s neighbors.
Little kids should be able to walk in the streets, even at night, without worrying about cars.
People who are well-off are expected to give out more candy.
Candy is for anyone who asks — no means-testing.
Whatever else we are, we are each other’s neighbors.
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Ahead of the 1st shutdown of US food aid to hungry Americans in 60 years, some of the 200,000 Little Free Library locations are converting into food pantries. Thanks @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social
October 30, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Ahead of the 1st shutdown of US food aid to hungry Americans in 60 years, some of the 200,000 Little Free Library locations are converting into food pantries. Thanks @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social
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I did a non-trivial amount of work on the use of facial recognition in Login.gov while in leadership at GSA, and at Treasury. The short version: it's racist. (And that was for 1-to-1 matching, which is much simpler than 1-to-many.) The error rate on this must be horrifying.
New: Videos show ICE/CBP agents are scanning peoples' faces on the street to verify citizenship. ICE has tool to instantly look up unprecedented number of databases with just a photo
“I’m an American citizen so leave me alone”
“Alright, we just got to verify that”
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
“I’m an American citizen so leave me alone”
“Alright, we just got to verify that”
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
ICE and CBP Agents Are Scanning Peoples’ Faces on the Street To Verify Citizenship
Videos on social media show officers from ICE and CBP using facial recognition technology on people in the field. One expert described the practice as “pure dystopian creep.”
www.404media.co
October 29, 2025 at 7:21 PM
I did a non-trivial amount of work on the use of facial recognition in Login.gov while in leadership at GSA, and at Treasury. The short version: it's racist. (And that was for 1-to-1 matching, which is much simpler than 1-to-many.) The error rate on this must be horrifying.
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Participants decorate themselves in lights and make puppets or floats that are illuminated. baltimorebeat.com/photostory-g...
October 29, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Participants decorate themselves in lights and make puppets or floats that are illuminated. baltimorebeat.com/photostory-g...
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With a lot of people already hungry, and many more about to lose SNAP benefits, here's a timely piece from @baltimoremagazine.com on Baltimore's growing network of community fridges, including the one we host inside our store: www.baltimoremagazine.com/section/comm...
October 28, 2025 at 12:50 PM
With a lot of people already hungry, and many more about to lose SNAP benefits, here's a timely piece from @baltimoremagazine.com on Baltimore's growing network of community fridges, including the one we host inside our store: www.baltimoremagazine.com/section/comm...
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From a crewmember on yesterday's Teal 74 mission into now-Category 5 Hurricane #Melissa. As clear of an eye as you will see in the Atlantic basin.
October 27, 2025 at 4:11 PM
From a crewmember on yesterday's Teal 74 mission into now-Category 5 Hurricane #Melissa. As clear of an eye as you will see in the Atlantic basin.
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important reminder: food banks usually prefer money to direct food donations because they can buy at discounted rates
check with your local food bank to be sure but now is the time to help out
check with your local food bank to be sure but now is the time to help out
Americans brace for food stamps to run out: ‘the greatest hunger catastrophe since the Great Depression’
Americans brace for food stamps to run out: ‘the greatest hunger catastrophe since the Great Depression’
Nearly 42 million people in danger as federal government shutdown continues and Snap funding to end 1 November
www.theguardian.com
October 26, 2025 at 8:09 PM
important reminder: food banks usually prefer money to direct food donations because they can buy at discounted rates
check with your local food bank to be sure but now is the time to help out
check with your local food bank to be sure but now is the time to help out